The Daily Report
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For your pleasure
Reviving an old zeldman.com tradition, we once again present downloadable desktop images for your computer screen and pleasure. Number one in a series: Meet Harry.
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Blood and bone
In remembrance.
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HTML5 Redefines Footer
In response to the Super Friends’ request, the HTML5 working groups have redefined footer. This is a wonderful usability improvement to the spec.
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HTML5 For Smarties
The HTML5 specification runs on for over 900 pages, and much of what it covers, while vital to browser makers, is meaningless to people who create websites. If thousands of irrelevant details in the HTML5…
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17 Tweets
Just like it says.
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MFA Interaction Design, Day 1
Last night, the School of Visual Arts’ spanking new MFA program in Interaction Design opened its doors to 18 special students.
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Loving HTML5
Half of standards making is minutia, and the other half is politics. Rightly or wrongly, I’ve always suspected that Atom was born, not so much of necessity, as from ideological conflicts between the XML crowd…
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DWWS 3e mini-site updates
The new mini-site for the 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards has been updated, with additional information about the substantially revised web standards guidebook, and with tweaks to the CSS which, one hopes, now…
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Kindling II
Two salient points, omitted from the previous discussion and verified this morning, are worth mentioning.
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Cogs at South-by
With over 2,000 proposed panels from which a mere 300 will be culled, there’s no shortage of content for next year’s SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Panels featuring Happy Cog personnel include the juicy…
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Kindling
The process by which books are converted to Kindle format introduces errors which do not get corrected. Every publisher knows this, though none will say so on record. The problem is one of economics. The…
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What’s new in DWWS 3e
The 3rd Edition of Designing With Web Standards is coming soon to a bookstore near you. This significant revision to the foundational web standards text is packed with new ideas.
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As You Were
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ALA 290: Motown & JavaScript
R-E-S-P-E-C-T for content strategy, plus Snook on JavaScript MVC. In Issue No. 290 of A List Apart, for people who make websites.
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Click My Lit Panel
In “New Publishing and Web Content,” a SXSW Interactive Panel, I will lead publisher and entrepreneur Lisa Holton, creative director and designer Mandy Brown, novelist and Harper’s editor (plus big web geek) Paul Ford, and…